Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have traveled around the world two times in the past three and a half years. I have met and talked personally, not only to government leaders, but to thousands of people in all walks of life. I can tell you that there is a great well of friendship and respect for the people and the Government of the United States in every country I have visited...
...Conservative from the minute he entered state politics in 1928, he once explained: "I have a respect for the rights of the top dog [and] no use for the foolish doctrine of equality between the active and the idle, the intelligent and the dull, the frugal and the improvident." Became Attorney General almost the day he was elected to the federal Parliament and by 1939 was Prime Minister, taking Australia into the war at Britain's side. But when the Laborites forced him out in 1941, Australians shed no tears. "The trouble with Bob Menzies," said one politician...
...midterm, Martin had a hard time convincing fellow Democrats at Senate confirmation hearings that he would not allow the FRB to be dominated by his longtime friend John Snyder. Martin's clincher: "I'm not going to be a stooge for Snyder. I have too much respect...
...canal itself is a pact not with Panama but with Great Britain: the 1901 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, in which the U.S. promised to keep the canal "open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations . . . on terms of entire equality." and to practice "no discrimination . . . in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise...
...Brothers Circus, nightclub shows and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus), then bounced through two tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers (The Crimson Pirate, The Flame and the Arrow). He tried directing (The Kentuckian) with indifferent success, plans in future to concentrate on producing, act occasionally. He has great respect for Hecht, "an enormously well-read and literate man, a bright, shrewd...